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Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

Bill Crawford

When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Influential Order Views
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful

Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

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